Yes those links said that Bush didn't believe the Iraqi Foreign Minister. Woopedy doo.
It's interesting what you do and don't see. :roll:
This probably doesn't carry any weight with you either, ehh?
No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD.
Agent Ferris said:
Yes those links said that Bush didn't believe the Iraqi Foreign Minister. Woopedy doo. Wow, your own links said it was the CIA that told Bush about what the Iraqi Foreign Minister had said. The intelligence community gives the Administration information not the other way around and that information comes in the form of the annual NIE in which all 16 members of the intelligence community came to the consensus opinion that Iraq had WMD and was reconstituting WMD production.
Your refusing to read makes having an intelligent conversation with you very difficult. The link told you that the CIA said there was information left out of the NIE report. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Or is it simply that you won’t admit it?
Agent Ferris said:
You don't even read your own links and have no clue whatsoever how intelligence gathering works in this country, in fact your impression is the exact opposite of the way it operates.
You're the one not reading.
Three versions of the NIE report were released. Bush and shooter selectively declassified cherry picked info to get Congress to give them that carte blanc to go into their War of Choice. The final version is why the CIA said important intel was not made available to Congress.
There have been three separate releases of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, including most recently a June 1, 2004 CIA response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive. The CIA released an Unclassified version of the NIE, titled Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, in October 2002. In response to the brewing controversy over U.S. intelligence estimates of Iraqi WMD programs, the White House approved the release of another version of the report in July 2003.
CIA Whites Out Controversial Estimate on Iraq Weapons
To educate yourself on this, read thru the link. I suspect you won't.
Agent Ferris said:
No actually I don't jest. Tell me again your take on the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, I need another good laugh.
Shirley you do. The fact that you, or any American, laugh at what Bush and Cheney and Libby and Rove conspired to do to bring us into their War of Choice is sad. Tens and hundreds of thousands of people were killed in that war. And more Americans are dying in Iraq every day... all because that spoiled brat wanted to show daddy that he could do... something. :shock:
Ok, let's look at what you're waving around.
SEC. 602. [50 U.S.C. 422] (a) It is a defense to a prosecution under section 601 that before the commission of the offense with which the defendant is charged, the United States had publicly acknowledged or revealed the intelligence relationship to the United States of the individual the disclosure of whose intelligence relationship to the United States is the basis for the prosecution.
Please tell me, when did ”the United States publicly acknowledged or reveal the intelligence relationship to the United States of the individual”, Valerie Wilson? Never happened.
“United States “ refers to the government, not to an individual. That sissy Rove doesn’t represent the U.S. Armitage doesn’t. Libby doesn’t. Contrary to Cheney’s claims, he cannot declassify a covert agents status. I’m pretty sure the president can’t either but, I can’t find the document I’m looking for. “Only” the CIA can change a covert agents status.
It’s funny how you ignore this section of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act:
"Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."
Face it, pal. They’re all guilty as hell and deserve to be in jail.